New Directions in Dirichlet Forms

by Jürgen Jost, Michael Rockner, Umberto Mosco

Presents lectures given at a Summer School on Dirichlet Forms, sponsored by the European Union, that took place in Crete during June 1997. Lectures describe recent developments and new perspectives in the theory of Dirichlet forms, touching on areas including Dirichlet forms and self-similarity, the geometric aspect, stochastic analysis on configuration spaces, and stochastic parallel transport and harmonic maps. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

277 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1998

About the author

Jürgen Jost is a German mathematician. He has been a director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig since 1996.